Resource Description and Discovery

On the 19 April, in London CETIS are holding a meeting in London on Repositories and the Open Web. The theme of the meeting is how repositories and social sharing / web 2.0 web sites compare as hosts for learning materials: how well does each facilitate the tasks of resource discovery and resource management; what [...]

During the second half the JISC Persistent Identifiers Meeting participants split into five groups to discuss identifier requirements for the following resource types: research papers, research data, learning materials, cultural heritage, administrative information. Phil Barker, Matt Jukes, Chris Awre and I composed the small group that discussed teaching and learning materials and these were our [...]

Last week I attended a very productive and unusually amicable meeting on identifiers run by JISC and ably facilitated by Chris Awre. Besides their obvious critical relevance, my interest in identifiers goes back to an international symposium on the topic that CETIS hosted way back in 2003. That particular event generated a voluminous [...]

data.gov.uk - a portal for UK governmental open data - is clearly a fantastic idea, and has the makings of a real treasure trove. But estimating how far it is in practice, means picking up a stick and poking the beast. Which data What it’s all about. To my unscientific eyeballing, the existence of most every dataset [...]

Many of you who have an interest in open education resources and the Academy / JISC OER Pilot Programme will already be following the development of JorumOpen. JorumOpen will enable users worldwide to search, browse and download open educational resources deposited by UK Further and Higher Education Institutions and licenced under Creative Commons [...]